Hebrew Bible Analysis

In the Cain and Abel narrative in the Hebrew bible a word enters and radically changes the narrative, and that word is חַטָּאָת which means sin. The result of this sin entering the story means that humans are cursed to work on the ground. The book of Genesis is an etymology for the formation of humankind, so the beginning of this relationship between humans and the ground is still relevant to readers today. Humans were originally given the earth as responsibility, rather than a punishment. The relationship between people and the earth is ever present in modern society, in the past year in the United States, there were 1,060 documented natural disasters(losses) as compared to an average of 680 natural disaster from the last 30 years(losses).
This implies that the earth does not have anything to benefit from humans, however humans have many things to benefit from the earth. The second part of Cain’s curse is that he is to till and be a caretaker of the earth. This is significant because God is no longer taking part in the care of the earth now it is entirely Cain’s responsibility. The earth being Cain’s responsibility means that if the earth gets damaged it is the fault of Cain. This means that all of the awful natural disasters that occur in the world are a result of Cain poorly tending to the soil. The curse of Cain was not only limited just to Cain, but rather is an etymology as to our responsibility to take care of the earth. Not only is it human’s responsibility to tend to the earth, but it is also our fault when things go wrong. There is no proof, in the story of Cain and Abel, that the LORD had anything to do with the ground opening to receive the blood of Abel. Unlike Cain the world today was born into this responsibility and did not choose it. The burden is now placed not solely on one person, but rather on all of us, we are Atlas, we are